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Since 2000, the story of TVs falling in price is largely the story of liquid crystal display (LCD) TVs going from a niche, expensive technology to a mass-produced and inexpensive one. — Read on www.construction-physics.com/p/how-did-tvs-get-so-cheap
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Deep congruence requires accepting all of the stuff of your life, every particle of feeling. If you are highly congruent, you disown none of your experience. None of it. You agree with what you’re doing with your time. You accept the stubborn approach of death, the arbitrariness of your fortune, your unimportance on the cosmic…
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Enshittification, also known as crapification and platform decay, is a process in which two-sided online products and services decline in quality over time. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize short-term profits for shareholders. More here. I maintain…
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..,despite our problems, life is as good as it has ever been. Especially if you play the game of “imagine you’re randomly born anywhere in the world.” At almost every point in the past that would mean an above-average chance you would be birthed into poverty, hardship, pain, want, and violence, and your adult life…
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1. An anti-drone swarm laser system; claims to destroy 20 drones a minute 2. Our brain’s master editor, constructing our reality (X) 3. Billy Corgan is pretty sure he saw a shapeshifter once 4. Last gasp against nihilism. And then…(X)
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In the 1970s, the big question was why was Chicago so fiscally well run….Why did New York go bankrupt when Chicago didn’t?…in New York, the political machine died, and the result was…they gave money to everybody. Whereas in Chicago, people were either for or against the Daley machine. That machine had an incentive not to…
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Though Taylor Kitsch ultimately wound up landing the role, former Lost alum Josh Holloway has revealed that he was originally cast as Gambit in X-Men Origins I’m rewatching Lost, and it’s abundantly clear that Josh Holloway as Gambit could have anchored an entire franchise. Whoever decided to eliminate him missed big time. More here.
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For its part, eternalism is, in principle, hospitable to the idea of time travel. If the entire universe exists unconditionally, all spacetime with its varying regions simply be. We could travel to different times because all times exist. Traveling to different spatial locations is made possible by the existence of all spatial locations and the…
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Costco negotiates as a strong buyer with tremendous leverage, giving Americans the opportunity to live comfortably for low cost. What could this look like for medicine and health care?
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We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms – up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested – probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure…
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For decades, marketing leaders guided buyers through a neat sequence from awareness to purchase. Today, that linear funnel model is breaking down. Buyers now chart their own course — jumping between channels, self-educating via digital content and often engaging sales late, if at all. As buyers became harder to corral into a predictable path, marketers…
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whenever i hear a young person confidently assert that humanity is cooked, my first instinct is to ask for their screen time report. because, yes, if you spend more time scrolling than you do participating in real life, it’s actually quite reasonable to conclude that we’re hanging on by a thread — Read on stephstiner.substack.com/p/a-gen-z-guide-to-fixing-your-doom
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You could put higher consumption taxes on items the wealthy purchase to a disproportionate degree. Paintings and yachts, and so on. Tom Holden argues: “In a world in which capital is essentially the only input to production, taxing capital reduces the growth rate of the economy. Whereas at present capital taxes have only level effects.…
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those of us who do venture deeply into his work quickly discover something far more imposing. [Clark Ashton] Smith’s imagination is vast, luxuriant, and final, as though one had strayed into a world already immeasurably old, already in decline, and wholly indifferent to human ambition or consolation. — Read on grognardia.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-ensorcellment-of-january.html
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After a string of disturbing mental health incidents involving AI chatbots, a group of state attorneys general have sent a letter to the AI industry’s top companies, with a warning to fix “delusional outputs” or risk being in breach of state law. — Read on techcrunch.com/2025/12/10/state-attorneys-general-warn-microsoft-openai-google-and-other-ai-giants-to-fix-delusional-outputs/
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One of the goals of politicians is to get you to focus on taxing income. The psyop has worked for decades now and hopefully people are waking up to this sham. More here.
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I wrote my own version of Stranger Things 5. I wrote it as a safeguard, in case they screwed up the final season, so I would have a conclusion to the saga that at least satisfied me. I also wrote it as a fun fan-fiction experiment, to see how different our stories would be, and…
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“[It] was hardly a nursery for intellectuals, it was a hotbed of false values, it harbored an unattractive percentage of small-time crooks and con artists, and the chances of being successful there were minimal,” he writes. “But it was fascinating, and if you were lucky, it was fun.” — Read on www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/05/david-niven-memoir-scandals-old-hollywood
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Stranger Things was a show people loved because of the vibe. Now, Stranger Things is a show people watch because they remember loving that season one vibe, and they figure they might as well finish the rest of it. — Read on www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/scifi/stranger-things-vibe.html
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Africa will produce new variants of Christianity and Islam. Furthermore, many African regions have not been Christian or Muslim for very long, not by historical standards. That might boost the chances of innovation, since to them it is not a very fixed doctrine. — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/07/three-scenarios-for-the-emergence-of-new-religious-doctrine.html
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